Hillary Clinton: US may need to Attack Iran
- From: "Gandalf Grey" <gandaIfgrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:12:16 -0400
This will have the gilry liberals panties all in a bunch
Clinton: We may need to confront Iran
By HILARY LEILA KRIEGER
WASHINGTON
Democratic presidential candidate and New York Senator Hillary Clinton said
Tuesday that it might be necessary for America to confront Iran militarily,
addressing that possibility more directly than any of the other presidential
candidates who spoke this week to the National Jewish Democratic Council.
Clinton first said that the US should be engaging directly with Iran to foil
any effort to gain nuclear weapons and faulted the Bush administration for
"considerably narrowing" the options available to America in countering
Iran.
Still, she said, all avenues should be explored, since "if we do have to
take offensive military action against Iran, it would be far better if the
rest of the world saw it as a position of last resort, not first resort,
because the effect and consequences will be global."
Other candidates who addressed the NJDC only went as far as saying that "no
option should be taken off the table" when it came to thwarting Iran's
nuclear ambitions. All of the major Democratic presidential contenders
appeared at the three-day conference, but Clinton received the most time and
applause. She hit on the importance of the US-Israel relationship and the
need to recover the three Israeli soldiers kidnapped last summer by Hamas
and Hizbullah, but she devoted most of her address to domestic issues
popular with Jewish Democrats, such as education, healthcare and the
separation of church and state.
She also told the crowd in response to an audience question that her husband
would serve as an international envoy to rebuild goodwill for Americans
around the world if she were elected.
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who spoke after Clinton, also suggested
that he would use a famous former statesman as an envoy in his
administration. In Richardson's case, he was proposing former secretary of
state James Baker to serve as a permanent Middle East envoy, a position
Richardson would revive should he win the presidency. Baker is a Republican
who served under former president George H. W. Bush.
"There has to be bipartisanship in our foreign policy," Richardson told the
press.
He also said economic and military aid to Israel should be increased, and
that "the cornerstone of my foreign policy in the Middle East would be a
strong relationship with Israel."
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